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THE ILLUSTRATED BUFFALO EXPRESS. i t- i i LIFE IN BERLIN. A Noble Re luti onist. i i ii I AV1IAT SUSAN B. ANTHONY HAS DONI5 FOIi AVOMEN.

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW ii HAS SPENT HER LIFE BATTLING FOR WOMEN'S LEGES. AND TELLS THE STORY OF WOMEN'S PROGRESS. i-( '1i i I f. av, i 1 J. I I I I THE CHIPPEWA STREET MARKET.

BUFFALO. iSTREET 6 1HE EXPRESS anmteu tMcerafAers' contest, accented subitct No. iS Rochester, Nov. 6. "Yes.

I have beeti at the mercy of pen artists, and all kinds of artists. for a great many years, and if I can give you anything that will benefit the worlq, 1 will submit to an interview witn good was the characteristic remark with which' Miss Susan B. Anthony met correspondent. when he called on her at her cozy and pleasant residence on Madison street, in this City, yesterday afternoon. I 1 The home of -the great apostle of her sex is a charming although not ostentatious dwell iner, where lives with her sister, Miss Mary Anthony, When not abroad on the mission to which she has devoted all the energies of a lone and wohderf ullyi busy life.

It is a sort of Meccar-to-which all sorts and conditions of people make pilcrrimagesi as does the Moham medah toi the shrine of his prophet, and Indeed it may be said "Great is the cause of the rights of women, and Anthony is its prophet." Miss Anthony; at I The first impression upon the visitor, and one which Was confirmed during a somewhat extended call, was that Miss Anthony is a charming entertainer, without wasting a single sentence ion frivolous topics, she occa sionally throws in a bit or the comedy element. which serves to relieve tne somberness ot a narrative which is almost tragic in its details. She has a keen sense of the humorous, and in the interview yesterday the visitor was given the benefit of many of these side Miss Anthony is known to the public as a strong-minded woman, and the stranger from without the crates of the women citadel nat urally expects this trait to be strongly brought out in an interview with her on her distinctive work rburhe finds himself disappointed in this regard. Strong-minded she certainly is, in the of having a perfectly poised intellect and singular brain power, but this strength of mind is not ini especial directions, has not tended towards-- well, has not taken on the peculiar form known in mechanics as an ec centric it is the strength ot an all-around mental athlete, i While Miss Anthony's home is not ostenta tiously furnished, it has an air of quiet gentility which suggests modest competence; and it is a home to which a second bidding is an unal loyed pleasure. I It is as a fighter that Miss Anthony is best known to the general public: Wherever there has been a battle, in the course of the more than 40 years war on behalf of woman.

Miss Anthony has always been found in the fore front ofthe fight. Endowed with a splendid iphysique, and blessed with superb health, she has carried on long speakingcampaigns, winch would have caused professional speakers to break down, and emerged from the fray ready tor another campaign, perhaps in a distant State hence it is not singular that she is best known as a fiehter in the cause which is so dear' to her. She has the gifts of foresight. prudence, persistence and nervei" which form the equipment of a great captain; and she has the fortitude to sutler repulse without losing courage which makes final victory certain. Yet, to her personal tnends she is known to be a singularly serene and amiable woman, I Her Birth Place.

Miss Anthony was born at the foot of old Graylock. in 'South Adams, February 15,11820. Her natber was a Quaker, and her early education 'was at the hands of private 1 1 1 I i li, i i i ti. i i' -X'V" v-' i 'r 1 1 1 I i I i rVCA if'-- Li 1 i I' I I' "i -li THE AMERICAN COLONY THE GERMAN jsjotes from a Buffalonlan Lately dent nere Minister Phelps's Pop- ularlty-A Bit of Romance Of the Uerman cities. Dresden has always been peculiarly ine lyiecca or Americans.

have an American quarter there English is sp ken in all the prominent shops. -This distinction, however, Dresden must now! share Berlin. At the consulate you will be I(Ji I that he American Colony otj Berlii numbers in the thousands, one statement putting ii as high as 4,000, This number includes nruiy permanent residents, but is largely made up of' the transient class who are attracted her by the advantages of culture and learn- so aoonaantiy ana cheaply The. iety me 01 tne colony is enjoyed bvoerhanr '-Hif the number, strangely few, you will sav ough there are potent reasons for it. Unlike American colony of Pans, the majority are re for work.

Berlin can boast ncj Mrs. Mickey. The colony has doubtless more Voung ptopie inan miy timer in curope yet the men, "fv.brgely college graduates, and the ladieji. here i advanced work in music or Germain, find enough time to a sip tea and say nothings trip the light fantastic in an afternoon or I he evening. Every one tries to do for a the colony is very hospitable but i sooner or later conies an announcement that I that Mr.

or Miss S. "has retired," ad be-f fore the season closes Berlin is dotted iby the idihg places of these voluntary exiles, He is A wise if he comes here for work, who I throws his letters of introduction overboard in mid-ocean. In this way is the society! of the a colony limited in numbers. It is if anVthing more cosmopolitan than that of our own Wash-jlington, and, if in the least aristocratic, is so only intellectually. An invitation within the circle comes to almost every one with a natural I claim thereto, but.it is declined quite as often j.as acce'pted.

tBerlin is sui In short the American sjociety of Feneris. The Gray devotiee of the Sin Berlin society requires Li i The most popular American in Berlin is un oubtedly Minister Phelps. He livejs and entertains id a commodious house on Neue Wil-lielm Strasse. a block from the Lihden, and within but a short distance from th4 English, Austrian, French and. Russian legations.

The Antire first floor opens into one lailge room. Here Mrs. Phelps and her daughter, ssisted by iMrs. Boardmarn and daughters, received every Thursday afternoon durine the season. The hospitality our Minister is almost proverbial i irt iieruh.

tome ionunates were asneu in ai Avery meal scarcely an evening passed without 4 dancing party or a ball; gay unifortns usually Sprinkled plentifully among the sobir black of the civilians, and the American girl happy with lier lieutenant of the cuirassiers tir guard du iprps. Not the least of the treat wtas the dry wit and ready repartee of the hot, for Mr. Phelps is well qualified to fill the pos already graced by a Bancroft and a Bayard 'Taylor. But the center of the American colony is not the Legation, it is inpneof the old palages or Sariser Platz, just inside the Brandenburg ate. next door to the French Embassy and at Jhe western end of the Linden.

IHere lived the past season a family well-known to fvery American in society, strangely Enough a Russian family with an unjpronounce-ible name, the wife and mpther an American, ftiorn in Central New-York, and her two interesting daughters as deft as their guests in their might hnd it evein stupid. in They at least a modicum i up so much about the I felt the injustice of men getting many times more pay for doing the same work in the schools that women got. The most salary I got from 1 835 to 1850 was 2.50 per week, while men who were dtti King the Same work received per month included in both cases The Starting Point. boird was ii The next move we made was to procure a petition of 28, 000 names for the enactni snt of a Maine Law, as it was called in those days; Well, we presented the petition to the Legisla-" ture, and a young Assemblyman roai one of thenofthern counties ridiculed the 'dea of ine legislature ot trie great ttate oi wew-xoric paying any attention to a petition signjed only; 'by women and This it wias that fairly opened my eyes to the necessity of the ballot for women." The only- trace of irritation shown Miss Anthony, during an interview which occupied nearly all the afternoon, and which substanf when she recalled the contemptuous remark of -this amateur legislator from the North! Woods district. It opened the eyes of Miss Anthony to the fact that these "women and children were powerless'; that they could influence the law-making power through the ballot only While Miss Anthony had been awakened by preceding events, it is doubtless true that the real struggle for the betterment bf wtjroen be- gan with this incident It became a Shibboleth.

under which Anthony and Stanton and their' MISS ANTHONY, contemporaries organized their Amazonian hosts for the conflict for the enfranqbisemertt women, which has since been waged with such unrelenting persistence, on every practic able: line up to the present hour. Miss An thony's eyes flashed for a as they have flashed thousands of times before elec trified audiences, but it was only for a moment. question regarding results recalfed her, and she resumed the serene and even flo of con-. versation at which she is an adept. Let the Women Keep Sllenbe." "Although this incident first impressed upon me the importance ot the ballot lor continued Miss Anthony, "the first movement towards the suffrage was inaugurated at Sen- eca Falls in 1818, by Mrs.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Lucretia Mott. 1 was at school at this time. When I came home riy people were" talking of nothing but these vo women. At that time I did not 'want to laughed with the rest of the idiots, The third great convention of wmen as held in 1852.

The omen had' organized a National Woman's Rights Society with Paulina Wright, Davis of Rhode Island as preside it. and Lucy Stone of Massachusetts as secretary, and Wendell Phillips as treasurer. 1 So, you see, we had good financial backing. They held this third convention in Syracuse. I was wide awake, and I wefnt down there, I read a letter from sMrs.

Stanton, in which she itold how women made pincushions and almos worked themselves to death raising money tp educate young men; for the ministry, and the(! first text these young preachers took was: fLet women keep silence in the You can imagine the sensation the reading of that letter caused. Mrs. Stanton was denounced as an infidel, and I was regarded as not much better. This was the inauguration of my work. "From t'hat time on I worked for temper- ance and woman suffrage.

Ii knew where I stood. From that time I have attended all the National woman's rights conventions Excepting three that have been held. I have al ways been delegate, and always an officer, I was put into office at the first convention I attended, and have been kept in office ever since." i v. 5 Some Practical Results. "What practical progress has the; cause of woman's rights since these first convention I Miss Anthony then gave a concisej and detailed comparison of the condition df women then and today, which was very interesting.

"At that she said, there was not a State in the Union where a married woman had the right to the' guardianship of her own children. Now there are six States where a jmother owns her own children. We 'got a law passed ih this State in 1800, but it Avas repealed next year. Akin to that, in we got law providing that, in case of thf death of husband, leaving minor children, the widow was the legal guardian of the children the absolute owner of all the property. real and personal, until the youngest child should become of age.

That was a Jong step advance, but the law was repealed with the other I referred to, in the early years of the War, A lot of lawyers put their heads toget her it was repealeid in I have met wo men who had the benefit of that law, their hus bands dying and leaving minor children and property, during the short time" the law Was the statute books. In onf of the cases the woman held the property fon more than 20 years. Ot course the principal benefit of this 4 was in mlf estates. Where lhir aru little property, it Vnabled the mother to keep home and bring up her' family. But the lawyenfknew what thejXwere 'about when they repealed it.

Now most of a little (sstate will find; itself in the possession of the lawyers at end of the settlement, inxhe old-fashioned way.1 v. IV-I "Then, 1851, there was nota State in the Union in which a wife had the right io her own wages. If an employer paid a -woman the'" wages she had earned her husband dould sue recover. Now there is scarcely a State in! Union which, has not changed thislaw. There is not, however, a State in the Union to- that gives the wife the right of joint owner- i What stirred you matter of teaching "In the first place, A -l i -Im i IN HER ROCHESTER HOME-SHE PRIVI-i went over the whole question and we organized the Women's New-York State Temperance! Society.

This was my first rebellion." Her First Rebellion. 1 I think I have heard that you were en- gaged in teaching in those days," suggested Miss Anthony's visitor, "Yes, from tny 15th engaged in teaching in -1 to my 30th year I was New-York State, i In the summer of tend the State 1852 I went to Elmira to at-Teachers' Convention. The next year I was at home here jin Rochester. The State Teachers Convention), was held here that year and I sat through the? entire session. The committee on resolutions! brought in a resolution deploring the lack of respect: for teachers.

Profj Davies, afterwards of West Point notoriety, was the presiding officer. He was a very pompous gentleman, dressed In a buS vest and blue coat with brass buttons. I MRS. STiANTON AND of theConstitution.y Susan B. Anthony.

The Illustrated Express. rose and) addressed the chair, and Prof. Davies stepped forward and said very condescendingly: WHat will the lady have "I said I' would like to speak-on the resolution. TJe chairman's' breath was almost taken away at the idea of a woman wanting to 'speak in meeting', but he managed tp ask what the pleasurej of tle convention was. The question was hotly debated for about hall an hour, during which time I stood on my feet.

It was decided by! a very small majority that "the lady mightspeak.v' v- i 'I said: Mr. President and Gentlemen I have listened with attention to your discussion, and I think you do not comprehend the cause of this disrespect for teachers. So long as society says that a woman has npt brains to be a a preacher or a doctor, and has brains enough to be a teacher, do you not see that every man of you who condescends to teach school, virtually acknowledges that he hasn't any more brains than a woman Then I sat down. iOh, how mad they were. The Rochester Democrat said the next morning that, rid matter how mad Miss Anthony made them, she hit the nail on the head.

My little speech Stirrfed up the pom pious president, and he made a grandiloquent "'God he thit I should be instrumental in pulling down the pillars of this beautif ul Corihthian Hall, by allowing a woman to take part in the deliberations of the "At the convention of ihe New-York State Temperance Society of 1853,. our credentials were rejected. Samuel J. Mayi the Hon. A.

N. Cole and Luther Lee made a strong fight for us. 1 One of them offered a resolution to the effect We welcome the organization of the Woman's Twentjy men were on their feet to oppose the resolution. One of them said 'We recognize in this the Hydra-headed monster of Woman's That night I spoke at Mr, Lee's church and had a packed house, while the' convention hall wis almost 'deserted. I did not know that I was going to make a fight, but I found myself in a place where woman was trodden upon, and I squirmed." I 1 111 11 i i 1 i 4 I i I' "O- I i i i 1 t.v Y.

't of A I a the the the and in and on law a the the and the day i i i i I 11 I.JJ VI r.IJ.t.. haps have told jits tales of American fun and sport; here every afternoon in winter could be found a little circle bf friends, and many were 'the words of admiration over tt he skill of the German grrl oil skates, many were the jokes over tjhe be-sput-redi and ramroddy an ex pressive word, new officers, many the com' ments on that aueer little beer-saloon on ice. Thus was the American colony. It was called gay by the hermits.) It was hospitable and Cos mopolitan rather. Without it, a winter in Berlin would be a barren existence.

Perhaps arter all, my mend, you better not throw 1 hose letters Keep them, and see for yourself. i Now a word in defense of the American girl. Europeans are accustomed to point to her as a aisy Miller; thus, one can easily fancy, seek ing spitetul reprisals tor her numerous Con quests in their midst. But the Berlin Miss Columbia is anything but Daisy Rfiller. The season now closed ihas been notable for the number of American beauties, and the writer i -1 i can Dear lesumiyny io me iacL iiiai mere is noi in Berlin one of those romping parvenus so deftly satirized in James's novel.

Still one often heart the American girl on the lips of a foreigner accompanied by a bit of a sneer. The Berlin representatives don't deserve it. iThey come, perhaps, to worship; it occasion offers, some imposing young officerj, but ajdance or two, a glimpse into the sham of or the discovery of his underlying contempt for their sex brings them to their senses. Besides beauty and a naivete quite beyond the ken of her Ger man sister, the American eirl has common WISE- IVade, jji Hudson Street, Buffalo, contest, accepted subject No. ig.

i The sense. It will not be many years before some other James will give os a picture Df her as she is, not as she perhaps was a couple of decades ago, i The Berlin (American colony is probably the largest in Europe. It has grown rapidly in the past few j'ears. The tourist class comes here but rarely. But tle German metropolis is the abiding placei par excellence of the student, in fact, of anyone with a serious purpose.

What matters it if he American stares more at the Emperor than the stage at the opera if we had an emperor in; Washington we be a na- 1 5 i i 1 5 FALLS. I I i VKgJi 'TIS FOLLY TO BE uerman officers and diplomatic attaches between. Evening parties. to4 have been frequent there, with now and then a large, reception or soiree, i 1 h.i The American quarter of the Thierearten in the Berlin; is Bouth of of neighborhood Lutzow Platz. the snot, it should be added.

where rents 'are highest and where live a majority of the society world jof khis gay capital not 'provided with palaces on the Linden, in Wilhelm Strasse or tnthat neighborhood. Heresone frequently bears English on the street or In the cars! and, here too, the weary man in society is qAiite bewildered by 'rofn original photograph iewr photographer r-Hr the rjumber of afternoons, teas and the like, to which he is bidden. The past season has, fit is skid, been unusually gajf; each diy fyad at least two aiternoons, Jwhile it was more the rule than he exception tojrush home, git into evening dress and dance, out the remaining hours of the day at soma other hospitable home. The Houses most frequented Were those of Mrs. Boisejjof NewYork and Mrs.

Mu rat Hal stead of Ciicinnati, while the masculine ieletnent was especally careful to save out Friday and Monday eVenings, when the small boarding-schools of Mrs. WiUard and Madame! de Spto were open 1 'Qi NIAGARA at st New York Ltry. 11 I callers. The Tuesday evenings of the winter of 1800-91. too, will long remembered the Americans of Berlin, who then by common consent flecked to hear the Philharmonic Orchestra, and much visiting-pp.

rhapa a little coquetting-was the order, notwithstanding solemn Germans at neighboring tables and well-known hiss for silenqe when joke and repartee were bandied back afcd forth Jn spite the music The icy surface jof he Neuer a larce laite iu mc nuomn iu, vumu i U' 5 i i -'Xx' i I IGNORANCE; IS BLISS original I press wa r-i r. lih. I I VHMM DAY AT Express amateur rV- i- i 1 fci is. i i i i 1 Tf II When the men call a constitutional convention, at any time and for any purpose, we will i ft f1 A 'v 1 put in and ask that the word 'male' be striken her home at Rochester, to a representative of teachers, employed in the family. Her finishing days were at a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia! From the age of 15 jo ,550 she was engaged in teaching.

In the earlier years of this period she taught a portion of the-year and studied at home the remainder, She began her career as a public speaker in 1852, and since that time.she has made from 60 to 70 formal addresses each year. From 1870 to 1880, she lectured under the auspices of the Slayton Bureau of Chicago, and lectured trom 100 to 180 nights during each qt those years. An Interview with the Leader. 'What was the beginning of your work for women?" was the first question, naturally. It is difficult for me to tell," said Miss An thony.

"Lucy Stone and others can tell just when they started out to become leaders of women, but I had no definite idea of entering the work. My first little protest was when I was 20. The members of the order of the Sons Of Temperance invited the Daughters of Temperance to send delegates to a convention to be held at Albany, i nad just come to Rochester and I was named as one of the dele gates. The Sons' were discussing some ques- tion.I don't remember ust what if was, and I ad dressed the presiding officer to say something on the question. That dignitary informed me that the sisters were not expected to speaK, dui to remain simnlv as spectators.

Half a dozen of us then marched out of the hall and went to the residence of Lydia Mott. a cousin of Lu- cretia Mott. She said What you should do is to get uo a woman's temperance meeting. That is just what we determined to do. Tbur-.

i low Weed announcea in ms paper tnai tne meeting would be held in the evening in one of i i i. me CuurcneS. ine jciijr wiai waa ii progress there at the time, and the Rev. Sam-y uel J. May and David Wright were in attendance, i They saw the notice and were at the meeting.

Mr. May opened the meeting with prayer. At that meeting we appointed a committee to call a State convention in May, 1S51. I compassed sea and land to get people to that convention. When the convention met we out A GLOOMY WINTER photcgr(ipkers contest, accepted subject No.

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mother's language. A romantic history has this family, and should Europeans politicians ever take it into their heads to Sever Herzgo- rinia from Austria and.give it its independence, hundreds of, Americans would call their former Berlin host. Princess and rejoice with tne people of that 'little Balkan principality in the possession of so accomplished a mistress. But in iWlin she is simnlv Madam da her afternoon is Tuesday, and her spicious apart- menfs am thronred with Americans, a few to bv the the of See tion of fools I The Bjerlin American is of the solid stuff one delight in. It augurs.well for our civilization that he is so numerous, and; that he seems td grow' more and more numer-Hotchkiss.

ous each year. Wm. Horace Wit From "Puck." The moral- quality lot things is entirely a personal matter.l He who laughs at the miseries of other people is a brute if he laughs at his own, he's a hero. ij.